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Event Management and Best Practices
Implement and use best practices for event processing Customize IBM Tivoli products for event processing Diagnose IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console, NetView, Switch Analyzer
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Tony Bhe Peter Glasmacher Jacqueline Meckwood Guilherme Pereira
Michael Wallace
International Technical Support Organization Event Management and Best Practices June 2004
SG24-6094-00
Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in "Notices" on page ix.
First Edition (June 2004) This edition applies to the following products:
Version 3, Release 9, of IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console Version 7, Release 1, Modification 4 of IBM Tivoli NetView Version 1, Release 2, Modification 1 of IBM Tivoli Switch Analyzer Note: This IBM Redbook is based on a pre-GA version of a product and may not apply when the product becomes generally available. We recommend that you consult the product documentation or follow-on versions of this IBM Redbook for more current information. ? Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2004. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.
Contents
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi The team that wrote this redbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Become a published author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Comments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Chapter 1. Introduction to event management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Importance of event correlation and automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2.1 Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2.2 Event management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2.3 Event processing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.2.4 Automation and automated actions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3 Concepts and issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3.1 Event flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3.2 Filtering and forwarding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.3.3 Duplicate detection and throttling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.3.4 Correlation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3.5 Event synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1.3.6 Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.3.7 Trouble ticketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1.3.8 Escalation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1.3.9 Maintenance mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1.3.10 Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1.4 Planning considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1.4.1 IT environment assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1.4.2 Organizational considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1.4.3 Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 1.4.4 Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 2. Event management categories and best practices . . . . . . . . . 25 2.1 Implementation approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.1.1 Send all possible events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2.1.2 Start with out-of-the-box notifications and analyze reiteratively . . . . 27 2.1.3 Report only known problems and add them to the list as they are
identified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2.1.4 Choose top X problems from each support area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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